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  A Valentine’s Day Plan with Staying Power: Dark Bars, Fireball Speed Dating and Burning Photos

  February 12 at 4 a.m.

  Finding love in Big D can be exhausting. It’s like The Hunger Games of dating. If you’re lining up reservations to test their love or prove yours, you’ve got it all wrong. The real merits of a relationship are best validated in a dumpster-fire manner. Or at minimum, a well-tested...

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  Your Dinner Options for Valentine’s 2020

  February 4 at 4 a.m.

  Valentine’s Day is almost here, and with so many great restaurants in Dallas, it’s hard to choose where you will be taking the love of your life (or the Hinge match you’ve known for a month) for the dinner portion. Yup, dinner is still a must on date nights, so...

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  DJ Sober and Blake Ward Throw a Fun Post-NYE Party

  January 5 at 9:12 p.m.

  Parties that take place the weekend after NYE usually run the risk of low turnouts and empty dance floors. With Sober & Blake Ward at the helm Friday night at the Ruins this was not the case. Photos by Roderick Pullum

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  NYE on the streets of Deep Ellum

  January 1 at 11 a.m.

  What better place to shake off 2019 than Deep Ellum. Hello 2020! Photos by Mike Brooks

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  This Soup from Haiti Is a Perfect Way to Mark the New Year and the Country’s Freedom

  Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  As we get ready for New Year’s Day, some people will make black-eyed peas, maybe some greens, possibly some ozoni soup. I, however, will be thinking of soup joumou. Two years ago, I was in Haiti for my second time, that time over the New Year, where I first had...

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  Lights All Night Turns 10

  Monday, December 30, 2019 at 10:54 a.m.

  The 1990’s birthed the sound of contemporary EDM-which lead to mainstream dominance in the 2000’s. The music and culture that fueled underground raves morphed into the soundtrack for mega-festivals around the world. Dallas has always maintained a strong and sizeable community of EDM fanatics. Scott Osburn and Hank Keller saw their hometown of Dallas as fertile ground to host its own large-scale EDM festival. In 2010 the duo produced the first Lights All Night at Plaza of the America’s headlined by Ghostland Observatory. From those humble beginnings the festival has grown to become a marquee destination music event attended by fans from all over the world.
  
  After Plaza of the America’s, the festival spent a one-year stint at Fair Park and three years at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center before settling in at Dallas Market Center which has been hosted LAN since 2015. Name an EDM icon and chances are they’ve performed at LAN. Calvin Harris, Tiesto, Kaskade, Flosstradamus, Deadmau5 have all graced the stage. To celebrate 10 years of success and cap off the decade this year’s headliners included Skrillex, BassnectAr and Porter Robinson performing under his hardcore alter-ego Virtual Self. Lights All Night should be viewed as a source of inspiration within the burgeoning Dallas-Fort Worth music festival scene. The producers of this event have managed to find success in a business that causes most entrepreneurs to go broke, and within a genre saturated with competition. We should all tip our hats to Lights All Night for 10 years of blissful sensory overload and hope that beat keeps dropping on the last weekend of every year for decades to come. Onstage Systems did the lighting design. Photos by Andrew Sherman